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Vintage portraits of ventriloquists with their creepy dummies
07.15.2011
12:29 pm
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Okay, I ain’t gonna lie…dummies scare the living shit out of me! Remember those commercials for Magic? (*shudders*) To add salt to my open wound, Public School blog posted a demented photo-essay titled Vaudeville Ventriloquists Dummy Portraits. Click if you dare.


 

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.15.2011
12:29 pm
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CIA’s Lost Magic Manual Resurfaces
11.25.2009
02:30 pm
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The CIA has released its official secrets of magic (stage magic, that is, don’t get any ideas) in a just-published book. Now THAT sounds like an excellent holiday present for quite a few people I know. From Wired:

At the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency paid $3,000 to renowned magician John Mulholland to write a manual on misdirection, concealment, and stagecraft. All known copies of the document ?

Posted by Jason Louv
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11.25.2009
02:30 pm
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